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Set among an English country household, the narrative follows domestic scenes and family tensions as servants and children enact rough play and parents argue over scientific curiosities; a young girl is caught painted blue after pretending to be a woaded Briton, prompting debates about discipline, propriety, and parental authority. The work combines social observation and gentle satire, depicting class interactions, childish cruelty and mischief, and the anxieties of adults about manners, education, and modern ideas. Episodic chapters present character sketches and everyday incidents that disclose underlying relationships and moral attitudes.

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Title: A Yellow Aster, Volume 1 (of 3)

Author: Mrs. Mannington Caffyn

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Language: English

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A Yellow Aster

BY

Iota

“And if this fought-for climax is ever reached
and science, creeping along the path of experiment,
so invades the realm of Nature that a blue chrysanthemum
or A Yellow Aster can be produced at
will, the question still remains, has Nature been
made more beautiful thereby?”
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL I

London 1894

HUTCHINSON & CO.
34 PATERNOSTER ROW
PRINTED AT NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
BY H. C. A. THIEME OF NIMEGUEN (HOLLAND)
AND
TALBOT HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET
LONDON, W.C.